One day an atheist was taking a walk through the woods.
“What majestic trees! What powerful rivers! What beautiful animals!” he said to himself.
” And to think they were all created by a cosmic accident”
As he was walking alongside the river he suddenly heard a rustling in the bushes behind him.
He turned to see a seven-foot grizzly bear charging towards him.
He ran as fast as he could up the path but he looked over his shoulder and saw that the bear was closing in on him.
Suddenly he tripped and fell to the ground.
As he rolled over to pick himself up he saw the bear right on top of him, reaching for him with his left paw and raising his right paw to strike him.
At that instant the Atheist cried out:
“Oh my God!”
All at once, time stood still. The bear froze. The forest was silent.
As a bright light shone upon the man, a voice came out of the sky:
“You deny my existence for all of these years, teach others I don’t exist, and even credit creation to a cosmic accident. Why do you expect me to help you out of this predicament? Am I to count you as a believer?”
The atheist looked directly into the light,
“It would be hypocritical of me to suddenly ask You to treat me as a believer now, but perhaps could you make the BEAR a believer?”
“Very well,” said the voice.
The light went out. The sounds of the forest resumed.
And then the bear dropped his right paw, brought both paws together and bowed his head and spoke:
“Lord, bless this food, which I am about to receive from thy bounty, Amen.”
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